Prius's have had this feature available for the last few years as well, except they have a start button. My co-worker loved it, she never had to fish for her keys, just as long as her purse is sitting inside the car, it would start when she hit the button.
No, they are not, you are correct. In my post, I was assuming that this was a small website or business, not a mission critical company product. I didn't mention software, or tape libraries, or hot backups. I think sometimes its better to have some backups, then none at all. An external drive can be bought for next to nothing.. really, I can get a 500GB HD for about the cost of a couple of tapes, but then I have to buy 2 tape drives (in case one has hardware failure).
Believe me, I could go on about backup windows, media, and techniques, but was hoping by keeping it simple, they would not be overwhelmed. By not being overwhelmed, they might start the process.
Also, by not using a computer based backup, they would not have the same problem as the site mentioned in the linked article, where someone first cracked their backup servers, and deleted their only backups.
No, but it is just like forcing every person to have a unique identifier on the outside of their car, perhaps made of metal, that is easily read, so that they can track the car to its owner, and identify if it is stolen, or associated with a crime. Heck, maybe even force people to re-register these identifiers every few years with part of the government....
Even easier.. put a external HD with Truecrypt under your bed. Maybe take a second one into the office, Lock it in a drawer, just in case your house burns down..
Every week or so, use 1 to backup. Alternate which one. Add more drives, or more often backups until you get to the point you sleep easy at night.
This sounds more like a way of tracking, similar (But probably much more secure) to how iTunes embeds your account info into songs you purchase. Basically, if they need to, they can track it down, or tell other servers to not let you play online, but that is a bit different than something that first assumes you are guilty, until you prove your not. A completely different way of looking at the problem, akin to saying "maybe we should capture and jail the burglers, rather than force everyone to hire an armed guard for their house"
I don't know, it seems both the UK and Australia's government data centers seem to be running very well at Fahrenheit 451! Makes Censorship of the internet soo much more efficient..
You have something like a car-pool lane, with very, very steep penalties. (you could even had RFID readers like toll-booths to make sure every mile or so) Couple that with the lower insurance costs for drivers, and it would pick up pretty quick.
So you've been in 11 major collisions? your an "idiot driver magnet"? You sound like my buddy working on his 4th marriage that just claims "he always seems to pick the bad ones" and doesn't know why the chick he picks up when he's married doesn't work out when he marries her!
As the saying goes.. The only common thread in all your failed relationships is you.... Perhaps you should start driving a little more defensively.
Or you could let your wife's car go back to the finance company.. And learn to deal with only 1 car. Or cut cable, or internet, or other non-necessary costs and save for insurance (if you can't afford insurance, can you afford gas?)
In my old town, they talked about cameras. Seems the cities don't own or run the camera's. They ALWAYS pay a company to do it for them. In my little town, they were looking at spending something like $30k/year for one light, in one intersection. Now, the company takes 1/3 of the fine as a fee (since they own the camera, and process the tickets, no going to the courthouse to argue to a judge).. So basically, a 30k/year light takes something like $45k/year in fines to break even. So once the violations start dropping, they get desperate to either change things to make more tickets, or to get rid of them, because they don't want the public to realize that basically every two camera's costs as much as a real officer for a year...
I don't either, but its just a few short steps down the scope creep staircase to get to using them to catch people that owe on their taxes, or child support, or other things people also frown upon, and then only a step or two down there to people who commit thought-crime, or that owe a private company money, etc...
If they don't institute measures to ensure the revenue continues from these things, how the heck is the company that actually operates the cameras (for a very large percentage of the fee) supposed to be able to bribe, ^h^h^h market these devices to local jurisdictions...
I for one, will miss the Megahertz Myth race.. But hey, it might go crazy when AMD has a GPU as the Vector CPU in the computer, and Intel has to sell a 63-bit processor.
I guess it will be exciting to watch new developments again.. Seems they've gotten a little to comfortable with each others positions lately..
VMWare is free, however, you would have to check your licensing to ensure you can install a second copy of windows on it, without having to buy another license. (unless, of course, you put linux on the machine, and run windows inside vmware)
I think virtual machines are going to be the death of Microsoft. Its just too damn hard to keep track of in a VMAppliance world...
As a long time firefox user, who is now forced to Use IE (at least they JUST upgraded to 7) at the office for certain webapps, like recording my time, I especially love opening a new tab, then clicking on a bookmark on the tool bar, only to find that the tab was not quite done getting created, so the bookmarked page appears in the original window.
You are looking at it from a system security perspective, not "IT Policies" perspective. He needs to be able to disallow solitare, force all connections through a proxy server for web filtering, pass down 802.1x keys, force people to use a certain network printer, etc...
Problem is, when you shoot a satellite down, it can take years to develop another one, and weeks to launch it into orbit. UAV's can have their signals jammed, and most depend on satellites for either GPS, or control. A plane can maneuver, and quite often be there much quicker than waiting for a satellite to come into position.
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Prius's have had this feature available for the last few years as well, except they have a start button. My co-worker loved it, she never had to fish for her keys, just as long as her purse is sitting inside the car, it would start when she hit the button.
No, they are not, you are correct. In my post, I was assuming that this was a small website or business, not a mission critical company product. I didn't mention software, or tape libraries, or hot backups. I think sometimes its better to have some backups, then none at all. An external drive can be bought for next to nothing.. really, I can get a 500GB HD for about the cost of a couple of tapes, but then I have to buy 2 tape drives (in case one has hardware failure).
Believe me, I could go on about backup windows, media, and techniques, but was hoping by keeping it simple, they would not be overwhelmed. By not being overwhelmed, they might start the process.
Also, by not using a computer based backup, they would not have the same problem as the site mentioned in the linked article, where someone first cracked their backup servers, and deleted their only backups.
No, but it is just like forcing every person to have a unique identifier on the outside of their car, perhaps made of metal, that is easily read, so that they can track the car to its owner, and identify if it is stolen, or associated with a crime. Heck, maybe even force people to re-register these identifiers every few years with part of the government....
Even easier.. put a external HD with Truecrypt under your bed. Maybe take a second one into the office, Lock it in a drawer, just in case your house burns down..
Every week or so, use 1 to backup. Alternate which one. Add more drives, or more often backups until you get to the point you sleep easy at night.
Sadly, the first insightful post I've read today is on an idle story...
This sounds more like a way of tracking, similar (But probably much more secure) to how iTunes embeds your account info into songs you purchase. Basically, if they need to, they can track it down, or tell other servers to not let you play online, but that is a bit different than something that first assumes you are guilty, until you prove your not. A completely different way of looking at the problem, akin to saying "maybe we should capture and jail the burglers, rather than force everyone to hire an armed guard for their house"
Its still there, along with the window_key-tab, which looks prettier... (kinda like coverflow in iTunes)
Don't forget MS Office 2007, SP2. They are supposed to be including support for it in the next service pack, that is due out very, very soon.
most other sites with actual reporters mention that its actually released at Noon PST.
I don't know, it seems both the UK and Australia's government data centers seem to be running very well at Fahrenheit 451! Makes Censorship of the internet soo much more efficient..
You have something like a car-pool lane, with very, very steep penalties. (you could even had RFID readers like toll-booths to make sure every mile or so) Couple that with the lower insurance costs for drivers, and it would pick up pretty quick.
So you've been in 11 major collisions? your an "idiot driver magnet"? You sound like my buddy working on his 4th marriage that just claims "he always seems to pick the bad ones" and doesn't know why the chick he picks up when he's married doesn't work out when he marries her!
As the saying goes.. The only common thread in all your failed relationships is you.... Perhaps you should start driving a little more defensively.
Or you could let your wife's car go back to the finance company.. And learn to deal with only 1 car. Or cut cable, or internet, or other non-necessary costs and save for insurance (if you can't afford insurance, can you afford gas?)
In my old town, they talked about cameras. Seems the cities don't own or run the camera's. They ALWAYS pay a company to do it for them. In my little town, they were looking at spending something like $30k/year for one light, in one intersection. Now, the company takes 1/3 of the fine as a fee (since they own the camera, and process the tickets, no going to the courthouse to argue to a judge).. So basically, a 30k/year light takes something like $45k/year in fines to break even. So once the violations start dropping, they get desperate to either change things to make more tickets, or to get rid of them, because they don't want the public to realize that basically every two camera's costs as much as a real officer for a year...
I don't either, but its just a few short steps down the scope creep staircase to get to using them to catch people that owe on their taxes, or child support, or other things people also frown upon, and then only a step or two down there to people who commit thought-crime, or that owe a private company money, etc...
If they don't institute measures to ensure the revenue continues from these things, how the heck is the company that actually operates the cameras (for a very large percentage of the fee) supposed to be able to bribe, ^h^h^h market these devices to local jurisdictions...
New hotness = Lawyers on retainer!
I for one, will miss the Megahertz Myth race.. But hey, it might go crazy when AMD has a GPU as the Vector CPU in the computer, and Intel has to sell a 63-bit processor.
I guess it will be exciting to watch new developments again.. Seems they've gotten a little to comfortable with each others positions lately..
Not to mention airport security..
VMWare is free, however, you would have to check your licensing to ensure you can install a second copy of windows on it, without having to buy another license. (unless, of course, you put linux on the machine, and run windows inside vmware)
I think virtual machines are going to be the death of Microsoft. Its just too damn hard to keep track of in a VMAppliance world...
As a long time firefox user, who is now forced to Use IE (at least they JUST upgraded to 7) at the office for certain webapps, like recording my time, I especially love opening a new tab, then clicking on a bookmark on the tool bar, only to find that the tab was not quite done getting created, so the bookmarked page appears in the original window.
I really don't care who makes/manages the software, as long as the file format, and method's of talking to it are standardized, public, and open.
You are looking at it from a system security perspective, not "IT Policies" perspective. He needs to be able to disallow solitare, force all connections through a proxy server for web filtering, pass down 802.1x keys, force people to use a certain network printer, etc...
Problem is, when you shoot a satellite down, it can take years to develop another one, and weeks to launch it into orbit. UAV's can have their signals jammed, and most depend on satellites for either GPS, or control. A plane can maneuver, and quite often be there much quicker than waiting for a satellite to come into position.
Or, they could always stop having Meetings! (I would prefer this choice!)
Could you imagine the outcry from the zombie writing community if they utilized their monopoly power to destroy their business model?